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How Top ASE Skills Use Anthropic’s Claude: Patterns from 258 Claude Code Skills
ASE’s Claude Code catalog has crossed 258 published skills , and the strongest ones do not win because they are longer, louder, or more “intelligent.” They win because they give Claude the right shape of help at the…
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Claude Code + Codex + Gemini: Which AI Coding Agent Is Best for What?
If you are choosing between Claude Code, Codex, and Gemini CLI , start with the job, not the model brand. On Agent Skill Exchange right now, the live catalog shows 2,126 skills across 10 frameworks . Of those, 266 are…
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Building Cross-Framework Skills: One Skill, Multiple Agents (Codex + Claude Code + Cursor)
If you want one reusable asset instead of three separate prompt packs, build a cross-framework skill. A good cross-framework skill keeps the workflow stable while swapping the adapter layer for Claude Code, Codex, or…
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The Codex Plugin for Claude Code: Bridging Two AI Coding Ecosystems
If you already work in Claude Code and want a second coding model without changing tools, the Codex plugin for Claude Code is the cleanest bridge we have right now. It lets you run Codex reviews, adversarial reviews,…
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What We Learned Publishing 100 Skills: The ASE Team’s Honest Retrospective
Publishing 100 skills taught us this: the hard part is not getting a skill live. The hard part is making it useful, trustworthy, and easy for an agent to invoke at the right moment. This retrospective is for skill…
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Agent Skills vs. Prompt Libraries: Why Skills Win for Complex Tasks
If you only need a reusable paragraph, a prompt library is fine. If you need an agent to follow a workflow, read supporting files, run scripts, and adapt to messy real-world conditions, you want a skill. That is the…
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Build a Skill That Generates Project Scaffolding for Any Framework
If your team creates the same folders, config files, CI jobs, and README sections over and over, a project scaffolding skill is worth building. The point is not to replace create-next-app , Yeoman, Cookiecutter, or…
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Business Process & Team Automation Skills: Replace Your Team’s Repetitive Workflows
Most teams do not lose time on dramatic failures. They lose it in small, repeated motions: triaging the same requests, posting the same updates, gathering the same data, formatting the same reports, and walking new…
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Anthropic Best Practices for Agent Skill Development: Prompt Caching, Tool Use, and Extended Thinking
If you are building skills for Claude, OpenClaw, or any other agent that follows the Agent Skills pattern, the biggest gains usually do not come from writing more instructions. They come from deciding what should stay…
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The Skill Creator’s Checklist: 12 Things to Verify Before Publishing
Publishing an agent skill is easy. Publishing one that people actually trust is harder. This article is for skill authors, marketplace reviewers, and engineering teams building internal skill catalogs. If you want a…